St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-11
How the Split in the Church
Was Brought About
mi Years Ago.
They Believe in Worshiping
on Saturdays Because the
Bible Tells Them To.
Something About Their Col
leges and Publishing
80 Houses.

IIHAs-l H them and their views
WzSNl " may be of interest to
VII - the readers of the
., GLOBE. Their name,
Adventist, would naturally be assOci
ated with belief in the second coming
its origin back to the great advent move
ment of 1904, which stirred almost
the entire civilized world. That meve-
ment was based on the belief that the
prophetic period of $500 days or years
of Dan. S:14, ended in 1874, and the
event to transpire at that time, the
cleansing of the sanctuary, was the
publication of the earth by fire. The
PASSING OF TIE TIME,
however, showing this view to be a mis-
take. and grievouS disappointment
came to those who expected to exchange
this state of mortality for the kingdom
of Heaven. They became divided, one
class deciding that mistake. had been
made in the time and seeking read
iuStment OF the chronology, another that
the time was immovable and themiStake
was in the event. From these two have
developed two classes of Adventists, the
first continually setting a time for the
end of all things and as often meeting
with disappointment, and the second
repudiating all time-setting, and taking
the more. tenable position that while the
exact time of ChriSt's second advent is
not revealed in the Scriptures, some
thing may be known of its proximity by
the fulfilled and fulfilling prophecies, of
which they are diligent students.
THE SEVENTH DAY.
AS their name would imply. this people
hold to the literal meaning of the fourth
commandment. and are observers of the
seventh day of the week, or Saturday.
On this point they are exceedingly ag-
greSSiye, and make strong stand for
the claims of the commandment. This
feature was incorporated into their
faith at an early period in their history.
A church of Advent believers in Wash
ingron. n. H.. was visited by a Seventh
Day Baptist lady in 1871, and from them
she received the doctrine of the second
coming of Christ, instructing them, in
return, in reference to the claims of the
fourth commandment. Nearly the en-
tire church commenced the observance
of the seventh day, and thus became
the pioneers among notwithstanding
Adventists. This class of Adventists,
who accepted the view that the time
was correct in the movement of 1874,
were thereby compelled to find the
meaning of the event to take place at
the end of that time, the cleansing of
plication of the word sanctuary to the
earth was an evident mistake, as the
term is never thus applied in the Bible,
The sanctuary of its former dispense
ton was the place where the worship of
God was conducted, and the round of
typical ceremonies carried on year by
year. But that sanctuary was no
longer standing. and to find a sanctuary
to be ''cleansed" as late as 1874 they
commenced. s.
A DILIGENT INVESTIGATION,
soon becoming convinced that it must
be that to which Paul refers in Hebrews,
the true tabernacle, which the Lord
pitched, and not man." A careful
study of the apostles commentary on
this subject, and a thorough eXamina-
ton of the typical system, as given in
the book of LeviticuS, seemed to settle
this point to a certainty, and the doc
trine became established, that near the
end of the dispensatiOn the blOtting out
of sins in fact is to occur in the heaven
ly sanctuary, just as it took place in fig
ure in the earthly sanctuary at the end
of the,yea AS the earthly tabernacle
containes the ark of the testament, in
which was deposited the law of the ten
commandments, it seemed reasonable to
conclude that when the real work of
Judgment takes place in the heavenly
sanctuary the people must be judged by
the same law that was the rule of life in
the typical work. In other words, the
same standard of Judgment must be
employed in the substance - as in
the shadow. Entertaining such views
IT WAS EASY TO SEE
that the fourth must require the same
now as it did then, and therefore the
spread of the Sabbath doctrine was
mora oocilxr oooomnlicbod ornonr tbtc
class than among those who held to time
setting and a movable chronology
Hence the world knows two classes of
Adventists, the first day or nO-Sabbath
Adventists and the people who are the
subject of this sketch, the latter being
especially DESTROYS that they should not
be COMPOUNDED with the former. Among
the early advocates of the seventh day
Sabbath were three men, who later &C
quired much prominence in the denom-
nations Elder Joseph Bates, Elder
j. N. Andrews and Elder James White.
These three men all lived to see the
cause established on firm basis, but
are now all dead. The first named,
Familiarity known as Father Bates1
was an earnest and faithful laborer in
the cause. He died in 1872, aged eighty
years. Elder White. in connection with
his wife, had more to do in shaping the
affairs of the denomination than any
or all the others, and was the pioneer Of
the publishing work., He died in 1881,
aged sixty years. Elder Andrews, after
writing many UNCONVENTIONAL works,
and compiling History of the Sab
BATH" based on the most careful and
pains-taking researches, went to
Europe. where he established, In Bash,
Switzerland, a paper In the French
language, and organized an effective
mission. He died in 1888.
THE RELIGIOUS VIEWS
of this denomination, and the scripture
evidence ON which they are based can
scarcely be mentioned in this sketch.
Like most other religious societies they
believe in salvation from sin through
Christ alone, but, as before stated, they
believe that the Lords coming Is very
near, and are, therefore, very active in
their efforts to place what they call
present TRUTH before the people. Be
lieving that a healthy man can better
glOrify God than one who is i'll, they
give much prominence to the necessity
Of reform In dress, diet and the general /
habits of life.s AS consequence, the
denomination is entirely q temperance
people, and present a spectacle without
a parallel in the worlds history. 5Edn-
,catiOnal interests also engage. the at6en.